Word: appealed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...managers of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens feel that the time has come when they can confidently appeal to all friends of sound learning in the United States for the means of placing that institution on a solid and permanent foundation...
...could never aspire to the rank and importance which the French and German schools at Athens have long maintained, and could never undertake continuous and serious work, while its head was continually changing, and there was only temporary provision for even this changing directorship. The ground of the present appeal is the necessity for immediate action in order that we may secure a most efficient permanent director. Dr. Charles Waldstein, the accomplished archaeologist, who now holds two important positions at the University of Cambridge, England, as lecturer on archaeology and director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, but who is better known...
...sophomores to come forward and pay up the remainder as soon as possible. If the whole amount subscribed is paid, it will enable the management to procure very handsome cups which will serve as substantial memorials of the gallant acts of Eighty-nine. We trust that this last appeal may have its effect on the stony hearts of those sophomores whose signatures have not yet had the magic word "Paid" placed after them in the blue-book at Leavitt & Peirce...
...have in view, and they are likely to remain in view unless substantial support is received, and that before long The officers of the association have labored diligently in the part, to promote a greater interest in cricket at Harvard, than is at present apparent. We trust that this appeal, published entirely without the knowledge or request of any of the officers, may have its effect in loosening the purse-strings of those who have hitherto turned a deaf ear to such appeals...
...CRIMSON fell in three feet of water, and wandered off the main channel of the sidewalk into deeper gulfs twice last evening in voyaging from Holworthy to Weld. There was water everywhere, and nothing to guide him in it. The president is away, we know, but we must appeal to the pity and humanity of the residuary powers. Let us either have light, or raised sidewalks in the yard until the spring floods are over, or else do please, kind masters, give us gondolas...